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aka my wedding pictures!
The anti-gay groups don't like that NC is the only southern state
without a marriage discrimination amendment to their constitution
because they are worried someone could get married out of state, then
come back home and sue to have their marriage recognized. Well as of
Friday I am one more person for them to be afraid of because I got
married in Boston Friday.
There's a new Chapel Hill News article on this study, reporting on some questions asked of Holden Thorpe about it: http://www.chapelhillnews.com/news/story/43803.html. He does acknowledge that there are issues regarding taking anonymous monies for such an effort.
Some other questions, in addition to the comments posted above, are coming to mind. Will the raw data be in the public domain? Will meetings held in pursuing this study be open meetings, legally speaking?
If you have not already heard about the proposed legislation called the Healthy Youth Act, which would mandate a two-track system for sexuality education in North Carolina, you should look it up to read all the details. The two tracks would be abstinence-only until marriage (the current standard) and abstinence-based comprehensive sex education. This program would allow parents to decide which track their children will take. I think this legislation, if passed, will be an important step towards reducing the high amont of disease and unwanted pregnency among youth in North Carolina.
I admit I don't know much about the inner workings of our schools (just wait about 6 years), but it sure seems like the Chapel Hill-Carboro City Schools have had a hard time keeping principals around in the last few years. This just in from Stephanie Knott, Assistant to the Superintendent for Community Relations:
Former Assistant Superintendent for Support Services Steve Scroggs was appointed interim principal of Chapel Hill High School following a closed session held by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education Tuesday afternoon.
Scroggs will finish out the school year until a permanent replacement is selected. The principalship is vacant as a result of the resignation of Jacqueline Boyd Ellis. Ellis will leave Chapel Hill High March 20 to become the Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources for the Durham Public Schools. Scroggs and Ellis will work collaboratively from Monday, March 9, through Friday, March 20.
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CAROLINA NORTH
Public Input/Information Session
3:00 - 7:00 pm, Wednesday, March 4 * Extraordinary Ventures, 110 Elliott Road, Chapel Hill *
A Public Input/Information Session on Carolina North will be held at Extraordinary Ventures, 110 Elliott Road. Please note that in response to feedback from the public, the times have been modified and the session is now scheduled from 3 pm – 7 pm.
Carolina North is expected to be contained within about 250 acres of the Horace Williams Tract’s 1,000 acres and be built in phases over the next 50 years, as proposed. The property lies just to the north of Estes Drive adjacent to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The Town and the University are now engaged in the preparation of a new zoning district and a Development Agreement for the initial phase of Carolina North, expected to be 133 acres to be developed over approximately 20 years.
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